The Blue Devils opened the second half with a 17-2 spurt and scored on their first 10 possessions of the half.

Peters started the streak with a layup and capped it with a short jumper on a feed from Gray.

McCallie kept Liston on the bench at the start of the second half after she grabbed no rebounds in the first half. Duke turned an 18-13 rebounding deficit at halftime into a 35-24 advantage for the game.

Albany coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson, who worked as an assistant under McCallie at Maine and Michigan State, expected the surge in Duke's intensity.

"I kind of knew what she would say in the locker room, so I knew they were going to come out really hard," Abrahamson-Henderson said. "We just didn't handle that very well."

Shereesha Richards scored 20 of her 24 points in the first half for the Great Danes.

Richards, who scored her team's first 14 points, made 10 of 15 shots from the floor in the first half. Her teammates made one of 15 during that span.

"It wasn't easy because there's like two people, and they're going to come and double-team," Richards said. "But I just found a way to score. If my guards pass it in to me, I've just got to find a way."

Megan Craig , Albany's 6-foot-9 center, returned after a two-game absence due to an undisclosed injury, but Duke outscored the Great Danes 42-22 inside.

Albany had won 16 consecutive road games dating to a loss at Michigan State last season.